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Clinton's a liar, a few of her friends from work, and I went to the Mall tonight to watch the fireworks. As we drove past the South Lawn of the White House, in search of a parking space, we saw that it was filled with thousands of people. Guests of the president and first lady--mainly staffers and their families, I presume, were spread out from the fence to the Executive Mansion, enjoying one of the perks of power in D.C.We eventually found a parking space and then found a comfortable spot of grass on the Mall, as close to the ...

Democrats, return to your roots By Robert Kuttner, 07/04/99 We are in a wholly new budget era in which public spending is again thinkable. For the Republicans this bonanza invites more tax cuts. For Democrats it creates an immense opportunity - if they will just awake from the coma induced by two decades of fiscal trauma. This past week the Congressional Budget Office forecast that the budget surplus over the next 15 years is a trillion dollars greater than previously forecast. A trillion dollars! The reason is a combination of higher-than-assumed economic growth and the long-term effect of budget ...

Inside Cover Sunday July 4, 2:32 PM A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the saying goes. But when it comes to President Clinton, there are some pictures that the American media would rather you didn't see. One such amazing moment, undoubtedly captured on film by all the major networks, took place on Friday -- as America's President and America's symbol, a bald eagle named Challenger, stood side by side on the White House lawn. The ceremony was meant to celebrate the removal of Challenger and his brethren from the endangered species list. But the moment soon ...

I'm watching A amd E's presentation of the Boston Fireworks display on TV (I'm in CA), and was wondering whose pinhead idea it was to play the following song during a FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION?!? Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today... Imagine there's no countries, It isnt hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace... Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A ...

I'm preparing tshirts for my small group for the July 24 rally, and need a few new ideas for protest signs.....funny ones? Ones that grab attention?

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON UPDATES PENDING FOR THE 7/3/99 VERSION

Freepers and lurkers, let's fill in the name of the person in the Clinton Administration for the following job titles: USDA Agencies & Programs Economics and Statistics System Office of the Chief Information Officer The Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Services Agricultural Marketing Service Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Farm Service Agency Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Desk Reference Guide to U.S. Agricultural Trade Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Food and Consumer Service Undersecretary for Natural Resources ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on today's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLYBe sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

Clintons, Gore Go Their Separate Political Ways By Laurence McQuillan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If two are company and three are a crowd, the White House is a crowded place for politicians these days. President Clinton is focused on his legacy, Vice President Al Gore wants to be the next president, and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton seems intent on running for the Senate. After years of championing a common agenda, the political paths of the three are diverging and that has caused some awkward moments of late. Gore last month declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination for the ...

COMMENTARY . . Like most Americans, I live outside of Texas. I've never had the chance to vote--or not vote--for George W. Bush. That may change. As he moves toward the national arena, I can't help wondering just who it is one would be voting for. Not that Bush lacks clarity or definition--he may be the very essence of well-defined. But he suffers from a difficult form of identity problem. Frankly, I don't know much about Texas' governor. Like many outsiders, I can summon a few key headlines from memory: Bush surveys tornado damage; Bush denies reprieve for Death Row ...

***BIG MUSCLES & BIG NAME AREN'T ENOUGH*** Minnesota Gov Jesse Ventura, who gave up a wrestling career for third-party politics, says he's not interested in becoming the Reform Party's presidential nominee next year. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents in an unscientific survey conducted by the Libertarian Party News said they would not want Hogan at the top of their ticket. "It takes more than a big name and big muscles to win our respect," says party spokesman Bill Winter. Meanwhile, the fight over moving Ross Perot's Reform Party from Texas to Florida may turn into a grudge match resembling those ...

PRIZREN, Yugoslavia -- Troops from Turkey rolled in Sunday, and Prizren went wild: dancing in the street, waving crimson banners and chanting slogans that evoked old glory in a reviving city studded with Turkish mosque towers. The 130 soldiers, vanguard of a 1,000-man Turkish NATO deployment within the German sector, symbolized the Serbs' worst nightmare. Turks were pushed from Kosovo in 1912 after half a millennium of Ottoman rule. "Happy!" yelled Sgt. Hasan Ibrahim, as he snagged a flying bouquet of roses and added it to the pile on his truck dashboard. "We are very, very happy!" Stuck in ...

This article memorializes, for posterity sake, the establishment of the national identification system in America. A lot of people, just now being confronted with the national ID laws, are quick to blame President Clinton. He certainly is an easy target. But the reality is that the Republicans are solely responsible for these programs, as you will see below. How The Republicans Implemented the Democrats' National ID Plan One day, in the not too distant future, a generation of Americans is going to wake up and ask: "How did we become shackled with a government that tracks, monitors, regulates, controls, ...

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- In the latest sign of frayed relations between Russia and the West, Russian troops were forced to delay their departure for Kosovo on Sunday after NATO blocked air corridors on their route. Infuriated Russian defense officials said the reasoning behind the move amounted to a U.S. "provocation." A NATO delegation arrived in the Russian capital on Sunday to hold talks on the impasse, and the Interfax news agency reported that intense efforts to resolve the dispute were under way between Russian and alliance officials. The billowing controversy came the same day that American and Russian officials ...

NEW YORK, July 3 - As with most things in Washington, congressional complicity in Bill Clinton's war crimes against the Serbs was no accident. Ben Works, a Vietnam veteran, and a New York-based political analyst and commentator for CBS Radio and Fox News, has been researching this issue for a long time. And he has concluded that the Albanians basically bought this war on Serbia with a combination of drug-tainted money, and legal and illicit campaign contributions. Back in 1986 (yes, 13 years ago!), Works dug up a Senate Resolution proposed by the then Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — About 100 prominent Poles inaugurated a committee Sunday to rename a central Warsaw square for Ronald Reagan to honor the former president for his contribution in defeating communism. "Reagan was the main author of the victory of the free world over the Evil Empire,'' said Solidarity Chairman Marian Krzaklewski in a letter accepting honorary patronage over the committee. Although Reagan has never been to Poland, Krzaklewski said the president was a great friend of Poles and had helped Solidarity in its struggle against the communist regime in the 1980s. The Committee to Commemorate President Ronald ...

Chile's intelligence agency a barbaric torture machine under Pinochet WASHINGTON, July 4 (AFP) - Chile's secret police used medieval torture methods on political opponents and answered solely to former dictator Augusto Pinochet, according to recently declassified US documents."Their techniques are straight out of the Spanish Inquisition and often leave the person interrogated with visible bodily damage," according one of the 5,800 documents on the Pinochet regime.Moreover, the papers show that the National Intelligence Bureau (DINA), under the leadership of Colonel Jose Manuel Contreras, operated with an autonomy close to that of Nazi Germany's feared Gestapo secret police."Since establishing the DINA ...

U.S.: PAKISTAN WILL WITHDRAW FORCESWASHINGTON (AP) - Pakistan's prime minister met with President Clinton for more than three hours Sunday and agreed ``that concrete steps will be taken'' to restore the ``Line of Control'' separating Pakistani and Indian forces near Kashmir.``Our understanding is that there will be a withdrawal of the (Pakistani) forces now,'' said a U.S. official who briefed reporters on the meeting under condition of anonymity. ``Both have a great sense of urgency. We want to see steps taken very quickly.'' The officials declined to elaborate on exactly what ``concrete steps'' Pakistan might take. ``Our position has been ...

FOX -- DRUDGE REPORT: Interview with Radio Talk Show Host Bob Grant Matt Drudge; GUEST: Bob Grant SHOW: FOX - THE DRUDGE REPORT (17:00 ET); FOX NEWS NETWORK July 3, 1999, Saturday MATT DRUDGE, THE DRUDGE REPORT: On this 4th of July, the "L.A. Times" fires the first shot of scandal at George W. Bush, tonight on DRUDGE. ANNOUNCER (voice-over): He's the mod muckraker, the Internet informer, citizen journalist, and everyone's dying to know what he'll say next. You know his name. Now In the fall of '72, Bush asked for a three-month transfer to the Alabama Guard, where ...